Schools today are not just to be places of academic learning, but places of social learning as well.  The joys and sorrows of the playground, the social experiences we have as children can influence our relationships for a life-time.

• Deepens pedagogical and artistic ways to strengthen social health
• Develops individual transition and recess plans to help create greater safety during social "hot spots"
• Calms the "socially fevered" child without "awakening" others
• Strengthens the three challenges of the socially controversial child
  - Impulse control/actions. Thoughtless actions
  - Empathy/feeling. Unaware of others feelings
  - Perspective taking/thinking. Inability to see another child's point of view.
• Provides developmentally sensitive problem solving strategies from the Kindergarten/EC through High School
• Fosters respectful engagement with parents
  

• Provides a clear road map of how the school works with teasing and exclusion
• Provides a safe and sensitive  structure to bring concerns to the attention of the school
• Ensures good communication and follow though from the school
• Fosters a strong spirit of collaboration and "village spirit" when our children are in need
• Fosters respectful engagement with the faculty

• Creates a "telling culture", where they know the difference between "truth telling" and "tattle tale-ing"
• Creates safety during transitions and on the playground
• Helps them know when a situation has, or is about to, "cross the line"
• Gives them tools to work through social tensions without "always making a big deal out of it"
• Holds the children who are excluding or disrupting accountable but without "making it worse"

MORE ABOUT THE WHOLE SCHOOL PROCESS

The Social Inclusion and Restorative Discipline Process is in place in hundreds of schools world wide.
Here are some links to further information that will give you a deeper overview of the process of bringing this to your school community...

• OVERVIEW: An overview of the two phase implementation process.  Click here
  
  
• EVIDENCE:  A study in the school social needs and how Social Inclusion and Resorative Discipline addresses them. Click here
  
  
• EXAMPLE:  To see an example of a booklet that a school developed about their Waldorf Student Support / Healthy School Culture, Click here

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Increase RETENTION of faculty, families and students

Increase ENROLLMENT through parent-to-parent referrals

Build more COLLABORATIVE relationships

Increase PARTICIPATION in school activities